The World Health Organization (WHO) is in talks with China to send a delegation to the country for further investigations on the new coronavirus, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead for the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program, on Wednesday.
The academic mission will focus on what “happened at the beginning in terms of the exposures with different animals” so the WHO can find the zoonotic source of the virus, said Van Kerkhove at a press conference in Geneva.
In February, the organization sent a team of international experts to China to learn more about the situation of the outbreak in the country and how the virus was spreading.
